Yesterday, I’m listening to CKNW with Mike Smythe in the morning and he was interviewing Colin Hansen.

Apparently Colin Hansen thinks that the roughly 500,000 signatures equates to only 18% of the eligible voters and therefore is not truly democratic and therefore they shouldn’t listen to the will of the people.

Hey Colin.  Try your math around this…  your party was elected with only about 750,000 votes.  If the anti-HST petition is not truly democratic, then how do you justify the legitimacy of your government?  If you can point to voters compared to total electorate and try to make a point that the numbers are too low… then I could easily do the same thing and point out that your government really has no legitimacy to govern since a clear majority of voters DID NOT vote for you or your party.

Colin, stop with the stupid games.  Stop with the trying to weasel out of the issue.  We want the HST gone, but barring that, we want a say!!  If you want to run an election on the HST and give us an opportunity to listen to your point of view and perhaps agree with it, then I’m all for it.

Call an election.  Let us decide if your HST flip flop holds water.  Or do you already know the answer to that?

Not sure if you’ve heard the latest, but another Liberal MLA thinks they’re better than the rest of us.  His name is Eric Foster and apparently he said something like, “if recall is successful, people in government will make decisions based on whether they will be re-elected or recalled instead of what’s best for the province.”

So, apparently, according to this MLA, the people can be counted on to make the right decision at election time but after that, suddenly we all get stupid and should instead rely on the obviously superior abilities of the government to make decisions for us.  No need to bother with listening to the constituents for Mr. Eric Foster.  Nope.  He knows best.  Only Eric Foster knows what’s best for this province.

The arrogance used to be astounding to me, but based on what these Liberals have done lately, it’s just another head shake moment now.

Hey Eric Foster.  Of course you need to do what the constituents want.  Not sure if you remember or understand the concept, but they elected you.  They now expect you to represent them, not the other way around.  Perhaps another election will make it clear for you.  I am sad that it has to take that though.  You would think that someone elected would have the ability to understand what being elected means, but there you have it.  The well being of the province is in the hands of a man like Eric Foster.  Obviously all is well in BC.

Have you seen this?

Incredible.  Over 700,000 British Columbians signed the petition and now, not only does the government arrogantly ignore us, but now BIG BUSINESS wants to ensure that the voices and wishes of everyday ordinary British Columbians remain unheard as well.

Just who is running this province?  Just who gives the government legitimacy?  We do.  And it’s time that the government was reminded of that.

Big Business, if you want to play games like this, then I think you are really misreading how the voter feels.  If now we’re being ganged up on by government and yourselves, brace yourselves in the next provincial election.  The government that you are colluding with may not be recognizable when it’s all said and done.

Just reading another news article about the Comox Valley MLA standing firm on the HST.

I have to wonder what is wrong with these people that they just don’t understand the issue.  We supposedly pay MLA’s so well in order to get the best and brightest to take the job… however, with the constant nonsense spouted by BC Liberals, either we’re still not paying enough or the plan isn’t working.

What will it take for a BC Liberal, ANY BC Liberal to understand that the issue is not specifically about the HST itself, but rather, that we demand that we be given a vote.

Democracy works ONLY if the population has all the facts and information at it’s disposal in order to make an educated and informed vote on election day.  It is obvious that we didn’t.  More than that, it should be obvious to the BC Liberals, that we WANT our voices heard, however, thus far, they seem incapable of understanding this.

Stop the HST and let people vote on it AFTER you’ve given your side of the benefits of the tax.  Make it a true informed and binding referendum on whether or not we agree with your stand on the HST.  If enough people are swayed by your arguments, then by all means, bring in the HST.  However, if not, then you will have to deal with the reality that this is still a democratic country and that people do have the right to have their voices heard and listened to.

Does this clear it up at all for you BC Liberals??

Have a look at this article and you can see that Terry Lake seems to think that he doesn’t want to change his thinking on the HST.  Are these Liberals playing with a full deck?

No one is saying that you can’t think that the HST is a good move for the province.  The issue is that you need to let us decide this as well. Or not.  The implementation should be put on hold until we all get the opportuntity to vote on this.  If Dr. Lake feels this is good policy, then defend it and leave it to the people to decide whether they agree with him or not.

That’s all we’re asking.  Listen to the people who elected you.

Simple enough?

A man walks into a psychiatrists office and speaks to the receptionist.  The receptionist gets up and goes into the doctors office and says “You have a new patient in the waiting room.  He says he’s invisible.”  The doctor thinks for a moment and says “Tell him I can’t see him.”.

An open letter to the Liberals here in BC.  I have a suggestion on how you can fix this HST mess you’ve found yourselves in.

Step 1.  Rescind or delay the implementation of the HST.

Step 2.  Call an election.

Step 3.  Let the people decide in an election whether they’re willing to accept the HST based on all the benefits and values that you will tell us all about during said election.

Step 4.  Abide by the will of the people.

Now, doesn’t that sound a lot easier than ramming through tax changes without letting the people vote on your proposed changes?  We would all be much happier in BC.  I’m sure of that.

So, just read in the news today that Gordon believes that this HST will create thousands of jobs in BC and therefore, it’s critical that it continues.

Well, let me understand this then.  Before the election, those “thousands” of jobs and increased competitiveness of our manufacturing business sector wasn’t critical.  It didn’t mean anything to him because?

Suddenly after the election, he sees the light.  After the election (cleverly timed so that we have no chance to vote) the Liberals suddenly see the value of this HST.  Are you really trying to say we should believe this nonsense?  Do you really think that the people of BC are that stupid?

All of you Liberal MLA’s who are trying to tow the government line, are you for real?  Do you really think that this kind of despicable behaviour will do the province or yourselves any good?  How stupid do you think that the people of BC are?

Repeal the HST.  Run the next election on it.  Then we can vote you in fairly after we know what your plans really are.  To get into power this way is borderline criminal.

I was listening to the Christy Clark show on CKNW today and heard Colin Hansen speaking on it.

I don’t know if there is something seriously wrong with him or if he’s honestly unable to perform his duties as finance minister.  As the conversation on the HST continued, he kept mentioning how if we want hospitals and other government services, that we need to have the HST.

Really?  Is this guy REALLY saying that without the HST we can’t fund our core services?  Does he really think this?  Does he really think we’ll buy this?

Our services are paid from without the HST currently, so why would the HST have ANY bearing on this?

Additionally, he’s lately claimed that our economy is improving and things are looking up.  This is all WITHOUT the HST.

I wonder if the governments lies will ever end?

We need electoral reform and we need it quickly.  I’m positive that these people in government are unable to think clearly.  Or perhaps think at all.

The sooner we get moving on changing government, the better for us all.

In the meantime, someone better keep an eye on Hansen so that he doesn’t hurt himself.  I don’t think he should be left alone.  He’s not quite right.

Just have to say that Apple gets it. They know how to treat customers and lots of companies can take a lesson from them.

I’ll have more details a bit later, but for right now, just let me say thanks to Candice from NC. You’re very good at what you do.